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Author : Daniel Moeckli
Release : 2016-07-14
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 650/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Exclusion from Public Space by : Daniel Moeckli
Download or read book Exclusion from Public Space written by Daniel Moeckli. This book was released on 2016-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the implications of banning people from public space for the rule of law, fundamental rights, and democracy.
Author : Sig Langegger
Release : 2016-12-21
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 772/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rights to Public Space by : Sig Langegger
Download or read book Rights to Public Space written by Sig Langegger. This book was released on 2016-12-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work to establish neighborhood legitimacy for newcomers while delegitimizing once authentic public practices of long-timers. With evidence drawn from the formerly Latino neighborhood of Highland in Denver, Colorado, this ethnographic study demonstrates how the regulation of public space plays a pivotal role in neighborhood change. First, there is often a profound disharmony between how people from different cultural complexes interpret and sanction behavior in everyday public spaces. Second, because regulations, codes, urban design, and enforcement protocols are deliberately changed, commonplace activities longtime neighborhood residents feel they have a right to do along sidewalks and streets and within their neighborhood parks sometimes unexpectedly misalign with what is actually possible or legal to do in these publicly accessible spaces.
Author : Anthony Maniscalco
Release : 2015-10-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution by : Anthony Maniscalco
Download or read book Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution written by Anthony Maniscalco. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the Supreme Court has banished free expression from shopping malls and other public spaces. In spite of their public attractions and millions of visitors, most shopping malls are now off-limits to free speech and expressive activity. The same may be said about many other public spaces and marketplaces in American cities and suburbs, leaving scholars and other observers to wonder where civic engagement is lawfully permitted in the United States. In Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution, Anthony Maniscalco draws on key legal decisions, social theory, and urban history to demonstrate that public spaces have been split apart from First Amendment protections, while the expression of political ideas has been excluded from privately owned, publicly accessible malls. Today, the traditional indoor suburban shopping mall, that icon of modern American capitalism and culture, is being replaced by outdoor retail centers. Yet the law and courts have been slow to catch up. Maniscalco argues that scholars, students, and the public must confront these innovations in commercial design and consumer practices, as well as what they portend for contemporary metropolitan America and its civic spaces.
Author : Barbara Hoidn
Release : 2016
Genre : Architecture and society
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Book Rating : 053/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Demo Polis by : Barbara Hoidn
Download or read book Demo Polis written by Barbara Hoidn. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Demo:Polis' draws on architecture, sociology, and urban studies to offer a dynamic interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary meaning of public space. Featuring exemplary projects - such as the High Line and Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, Alexanderplatz and Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, Trafalgar Square in London, the Le Ventana de Mar park in Puerto Rico, and Madrid's Campo de Cebada - as well as a range of recent, at times controversial, artistic and urban design interventions that reflect criticisms of the status quo, the book delves into various approaches to the design - and redesign - of public space.
Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Release : 2009
Genre : Public spaces
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Book Rating : 07X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sidewalks by : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Download or read book Sidewalks written by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade after decade, urbanites have socialized, paraded and played, sold their wares, and observed city life. These uses often overlap and conflict, and urban residents and planners try to include some and exclude others. In this first book-length analysis of the sidewalk as a distinct public space, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht examine the evolution of the American urban sidewalk and trace conflicts that have arisen over its competing uses. They discuss the characteristics of sidewalks as small urban public spaces, and such related issues as the ambiguous boundaries of their 'public' status, contestation around specific uses, control and regulations, and the implications for First Amendment speech and assembly rights. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples as well as case study research and archival data from five cities - Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle - the authors focus on how the functions and meanings of street activities have shifted and have been negotiated through controls and interventions. They consider sidewalk uses that include the display of individual and group identities (in ethnic and pride parades, for example), the everyday politics of sidewalk access, and larger political actions (including Seattle's 1999 antiglobalization protests), and examine the complex regulatory frameworks that manage street and sidewalk life. The role of urban sidewalks in the early twenty-first century depends, the authors conclude, on what we want from sidewalk life and how we balance competing interests.
